A DISGRACED Birmingham doctor suspended after being put on the Sex Offenders' Register for downloading child porn is trying to return to work.

A DISGRACED Birmingham doctor suspended after being put on the Sex Offenders' Register for downloading child porn is trying to return to work.

Dr John Rumbold, of Bordesley Green, was banned from working a year ago by the General Medical Council (GMC) after police found sick images of children as young as four.

The 36-year-old is now battling to return to work and will go before a GMC panel on Monday. They will review Rumbold's case.

But campaigners from Kidscape child safety charity today reiterated calls for the doc to be struck off for good.

Kidscape director Michele Elliot said: "If downloading child pornography doesn't lead to disqualification from the medical register, then I don't know what does."

Rumbold was convicted of 12 counts of making indecent photographs of children and sentenced to a three year community rehabilitation order and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for five years in December 2002.

A GMC spokesman said a panel had already extended Rumbold's ban three times since August 2003.

But despite his suspension, the GMC allowed the shamed doctor had been allowed to work in an unpaid placement at Kidderminster Hospital as an "observer" in 2004.

Since being sentenced, Rumbold has said he now understands the gravity of his crimes and has attended weekly sexual therapy sessions.